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1974ref. 149715N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage borderless color reference photograph from the 1974 film showing actress Miou-Miou. Based on director Bertrand Blier's 1972 novel a controversial comedy following two petty criminals as they roam with abandon deflowering women stealing and behaving badly in general. Shot on location in France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 149732N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release with liberals protesting the film's depiction of the Soviet cause and conservatives protesting the liberal picketers. Set and shot on location in Ottawa Ontario Canada. 10 x 12.75 inches. Very Good lightly creased to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 149729N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1970 film showing actresses Erica Gavin and an uncredited model with cinematographer Fred J. Koenekamp behind the camera at the far left. With the film's French 1975 release title "Orgissimo" at the bottom right. After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic and most entertaining cult favorite once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first exploitation-horror-camp-musical." The film follows three members of an all-girl rock band called The Kelly Affair who relocate to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Their success comes at the price of their friendship and integrity however and the girls eventually succumb to a nonstop train of decadence drugs and betrayal. Featuring one-hit wonders the Strawberry Alarm Clock supporting performances by Meyer regulars Charles Napier and Haji and a bit part from future Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" proved to be Meyer's biggest box-office success. Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with light wear to the corners. Criterion Collection 836. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 149723N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1977 French film showing actress Delphine Seyrig. With the stamp of M.K. 2 DIFFUSION Films on the verso. A desperately unhappy woman reflects on the relationships in her life beginning with her marriage to her womanizing husband who has forced her into prostitution as a means of paying off his gambling debts. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 149769N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1970 French film showing actress Marie-Christine Barrault taking a bubble bath. A drowsy absent-minded man who works at an advertising agency fills his days with fantasy to escape the problems in his life. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. About Near Fine with brief separation to a few corners. N.p. unknown books
1976ref. 149763N.p.: N.p. 1976. Two vintage color reference photographs from the 1976 film one showing actor Jodie Foster the other showing actor Scott Jacoby and the back of Connie Foster Jodie's older sister and body double for the scene. One with a collector label on the verso and manuscript ink annotations noting the film's German title the other with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's Dutch release. Based on Laird Koenig's 1974 novel wherein a teenage girl living alone attempts to hide a dark familial secret from her upper-crust neighbors. To the displeasure of several producers Jodie Foster who was 13 years old at the time of filming refused to appear in a sex scene with Jacoby leading director Nicolas Gessner to call in Foster's 21 year-old sister as a nude body double. Set in Wells Harbor Maine and shot on location in Montreal and Knowlton Quebec. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners and light fading overall. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 149757N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1963 British film showing director Joseph Losey watching a scene between actors James Fox and Wendy Craig. The first of Joseph Losey's three legendary collaborations with screenwriter-playwright Harold Pinter a dark squeamish parable that tells a familiar servant-becomes-master tale but surpasses mediocrity through a journey into the psyche of the servant himself. Stunningly photographed by Douglas Slocombe. A classic of 1960s British cinema. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown books
1977ref. 149743N.p.: N.p. 1977. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1977 French film showing actress Sylvia Kristel variously with director Claude Chabrol and actors Charles Vanel and Jean Carmet. A young woman in the process of leaving her husband discovers her car's windshield has mysteriously shattered forcing her to spend the night at an isolated mansion in the countryside. Shot on location in Villennes sur Seine France. 7 x 4.5 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 149772Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1980. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1980 Japanese pinku pink film. Also included with the set is a film program in Japanese. Housed in a studio envelope. Photographs 6 x 4.25 inches Near Fine. Film program is 28.25 x 6.75 inches one sheet folded four times Near Fine. Weisser and Weisser The Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films p. 89. Nikkatsu unknown books
1957ref. 149744N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph of director Josef von Sternberg what appears to be Howard Hughes and various crew members on the set of the 1957 film. With the stamp of Cinemagence on the verso. A Soviet pilot lands at a USAF base in Alaska where she pretends to be a defector leading the base commander to assign an American pilot to monitor her behavior. Sternberg's first film with Howard Hughes' RKO Studios made only a few years before his retirement from directing. Shot on location in California. 5 x 6.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 149739N.p.: N.p. 1985. Four vintage borderless reference photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1985 French film three showing director Agnes Varda and actress Sandrine Bonnaire one showing Varda and cinematographer Patrick Blossier and one showing Varda and a film crew inspecting Bonnaire as she poses as a dead body in a ditch. With the stamp of Cinemagence three with provenance stamps and one with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso. Varda's most successful and critically acclaimed film beginning with the discovery of a young migrant woman's body frozen in a ditch in northern France and retracing her life up until the time of her death. As an important and influential French director writer and artist Agnes Varda garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. Shot on location in Gard Herault and Bouches-du-Rhone France. Four photographs 7 x 5 inches one photograph 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 74. N.p. unknown books
1954ref. 149741N.p.: N.p. 1954. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1954 film. With agency labels on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout. Good-natured bumbling Mr. Hulot decides to take a summer trip to the French coast where he wreaks benevolent chaos on the residents of a small seaside resort. The film which introduced Jacques Tati's beloved character to the world followed by "Mon Oncle" 1958 "Play Time" 1967 and "Trafic" 1971. Shot on location on the coast of France. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 110. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 149755Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1961 film showing director John Huston riding a tire while actor Eli Wallach looks on. With a provenance stamp on the verso. The final completed film for actors Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe before their deaths. Notoriously a trying endeavor for both Monroe who was struggling with a drug addiction and pending divorce from Arthur Miller and would often fail to show up to the set and for director John Huston who would drink and occasionally fall asleep while filming. Gable performed all of his own stunts then suffered a heart attack only two days after filming ended and died ten days later. Set and shot on location in Dayton Nevada. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1961ref. 149748Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage reference photograph from the 1961 film showing actors Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe outside a Dayton bar holding a hatful of collected cash bets to pay Montgomery Clift's rodeo fee. With the stamp of Les Artistes Associes on the verso along with a stamp of a large capital "S." The final completed film for Gable and Monroe before their deaths. Notoriously a trying endeavor for the actress who was struggling with her drug problem and pending divorce from Arthur Miller and would often fail to show up to the set and for director John Huston who would drink and occasionally fall asleep while filming. Gable performed all of his own stunts then suffered a heart attack only two days after filming ended and died ten days later. Set and shot on location in Dayton Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1953ref. 150501N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph of L-R Henri-Georges Clouzot Charles Vanel unidentified woman and Vera Clouzot on the set of the 1953 French film. Based on the 1950 French novel by Georges Arnaud. Remade in 1958 as "Violent Road" directed by Howard W. Koch starring Brian Keith and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and again in 1977 as "Sorcerer" directed by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider and Bruno Cremer. Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece a tense and literally volatile thriller. Four luckless Europeans are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks of nitroglycerine through the South American wilderness to extinguish a fire in the oil fields. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Gard and Bouches-du-Rhone France. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 36. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby France. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 150497N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Maurice Pialat on the set of the 1985 film. Brutish and jaded police detective Louis Mangin Gerard Depardieu in one of his strongest performances investigates a Tunisian drug gang and begins to fall for the girlfriend Sophie Marceau of one of the criminals. Set in and shot on location in Paris France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 1326. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 150785Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Complete set of eight vintage black and white color studio still photographs from the 1978 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Three adult sisters struggle to cope with the separation of their parents and their mother's subsequent mental decline. Director Woody Allen's first drama without comedic elements. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1983ref. 150556Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1983. Five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1983 film. Numbered E-1 through E-5 on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on the 1978 Frank De Felitta novel which was in turn loosely based on the 1974 case of a woman who claimed to have been sexually assaulted multiple times by poltergeists. De Felitta was present during the initial investigation by with two parapsychologists one of whom also served as a technical advisor on the film. Shot on location in El Segundo and Santa Monica California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1967ref. 149503Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1967. Three vintage borderless black-and-white photographs taken on the set of the 1967 film: 1 director Norman Jewison sitting alone 2 Jewison directing Rod Stieger and 3 Jewison directing a key early scene featuring actors Arthur Malet Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. With manuscript ink annotations regarding layout on the verso. From the collection of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on John Ball's 1965 novel. An African American police detective from Philadelphia is recruited to help solve a murder in a small bigoted Mississippi town. The film dealt skillfully with the topic of race relations in the South during the Civil Rights movement and included a controversial scene in which a white actor Larry Gates slaps Poitier in the face at which point Poitier slaps him right back. It was said you could determine the racial makeup of a theater by their verbal reaction to the scene: cheers for a predominantly Black audience or whispers for a predominantly white one. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and nominated for two others. Though set in the fictional town of Sparta Mississippi Poitier refused to travel below the Mason-Dixon Line so the film was shot largely in Illinois. One photograph 7.5 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Penzler 101. United Artists unknown books
1991ref. 150483Beverly Hills CA: Orion Classics 1991. Vintage reference photograph of Richard Linklater and cinematographer Lee Daniel on the set of the 1991 film. Paper snipe on verso. Shot on 16mm on a $3000 budget Linklater's film documents a day in the life of countless young social outcasts and misfits in Austin Texas and became a key film in the American independent film movement of the 1990s. Set in and shot on location in Austin Texas. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 247. Orion Classics unknown books
1969ref. 150609Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Italian-German film. A powerful corrupt industrialist family illustrates the transition of the German upper class from resentment to acceptance of the Nazi party. The first film in Visconti's German Trilogy followed by "Death in Venice" 1971 and "Ludwig" 1973. Shot on location in Germany Austria and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus one with a small closed tear to the right edge. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1981ref. 150784First City / Embassy Pictures 1981. Eight original photographs from the 1981 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. A middle-aged white executive's life takes an unexpected turn when he learns that he has an illegitimate Black son who wants to be adopted by the executive and his wife. Featuring Denzel Washington in his film debut. Shot on location in Malibu Lancaster and Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. First City / Embassy Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 150778Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Three vintage studio still color photographs from the 1958 film. Based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan. A teenage girl feels her comfortable life begin to change when her widowed father proposes to his girlfriend and the girl becomes determined to end their relationship. Set and shot on location in Saint-Tropez France. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good lightly edgeworn and lightly and evenly toned. Godard Histoires du cinema. Twilight Time. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1971ref. 150344N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Pier Paolo Pasolini and unidentified crew member with author Alberto Moravia in the background during the filming of the 1971 short documentary film. On the final day of shooting his 1971 film "The Decameron" in Sana'a Yemen Pasolini began shooting the 16-minute documentary of the historic 2500-year-old city center in an effort to have it recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The city center was in threat from modernization following the end of the North Yemen Civil War. The Old City of Sana'a was decalred a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 150507Berlin: Central Cinema Company Film CCC 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Fritz Lang being attacked by the shackled Paul Hubschmid rehearsing a scene on the set of the 1959 film. German mimeo snipe and "Der Tiger von Eschnapur" stamps on verso. Based on the 1918 German novel "Das Indische Grabmal" "The Indian Tomb" by Thea von Harbou. Previously filmed in 1921 as the silent film "The Indian Tomb" directed by Joe May and starring Conrad Veidt and Mia May with a screenplay written by von Harbou and Lang who was originally slated to direct and in 1938 as the German film "Der Tiger von Eschnapur" directed by Richard Eichberg starring Philip Dorn and La Jana. Lang returned to the material some forty years later and divided the story into two films to avoid the lengthy three and a half hour running time of the original silent film. A German architect travels to the remote Indian city of Eschnapur to oversee work being done at the behest of the Maharajah and falls in love with a beautiful temple dancer who the Maharajah also loves. Set in India shot on location in Berlin Germany and Udaipur India. 9 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Eureka 50047. Rosenbaum 1000. Central Cinema Company Film [CCC] unknown books
